在其开拓性的著作中,爱德华·萨义德(Edward Said)使用“东方主义”这个术语来表示用以建构西方理解东方的话语。虽在近代早期曾出现过正面的东方主义,然伴随西方文明在世界舞台上的崛起,这套话语渐趋与秉持欧洲中心观的现代性意识形态合流,并开始共享基本相同的理论内核。在萨义德离世十年之后,一本名为《法律东方主义》 In his pioneering work, Edward Said uses the term “Orientalism” as a term used to construct a Western understanding of the East. Although positive orientalism appeared in early modern times, accompanying the rise of western civilization on the world stage, the discourse gradually merged with the modern ideology of adhering to the European central point of view and began to share the same theoretical core. Ten years after his death, a book entitled “Legal Orientalism”